How the Light Changes

<p>This new collection brings together a mix of montaged and strangely juxtaposed materials composed over a period of several years between 2012 and 2017 and continues a tradition whereby images and ideas create a framework which contains some familiar and not so familiar topics and relationships. You may recognise phrases and snippets which cause a sense of déjà vu but not that you'd be certain enough to nail down. Weather becomes political and there is resonance here in abundance. </p><p><br></p><p>Spence's pirate poetics combine the best of nautical history with some freely plundered contemporary processes to produce gold aplenty... </p><p> -Rupert Loydell on <em>A Curious Shipwreck</em> (Shearsman Books 2010) </p><p> shortlisted for the Forward Prize best debut collection</p><p><br></p><p>This is a ship steered by Werner Herzog and captained by Klaus Kinski. </p><p> -Fred Johnston <em>Tears in the Fence</em> on <em>A Curious Shipwreck</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Limits of Control</em> (Penned in the Margins 2011) is a collection of prose poems and about 75% of its lines are killers. </p><p> -Martin Stannard <em>Stride Magazine</em></p><p><br></p><p>Subtly prismatic these fractured images float joyously free from the whorl on the page. </p><p> - Peter Gillies<em> Stride Magazine</em> on <em>Maelstrom Origami</em> </p><p> (Shearsman Books 2014)</p><p><br></p><p>Steve Spence has reframed noise pollution for the connoisseur. </p><p> -Patrick Holden on <em>Many Red Fish</em> (Knives Forks and Spoons 2019)</p><p><br></p>